Package: lintian
Version: 2.98.0
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
The debian/rules snippet:
sed -ie 's@$(CURDIR)@...@' target
… initially appears to be harmless. However, $(CURDIR) can contain
regular expression metacharacters (specifically, the '+' character)
which can affect exactly what it can match.
In some cases, this has led to silently broken builds (#585678). We
should be able to detect most instances of this (there are many on
codesearch.debian.net), possibly suggesting the following replacement:
perl -pi -e 's@\Q$(CURDIR)\E@...@' target
Variants such as $(shell pwd) should probably be checked for too.
Regards,
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